These 10 Rare Animals Were Caught on Forest Cameras Across India in the Last 5 Years

Across India, camera traps are doing what people often cannot do, wait without disturbance and record wildlife without bias. They are revealing rare animals moving through familiar forests, and species appearing where they were once thought absent. Most images are grainy, often taken at night, but together they point to a larger story of adaptation. Here is what camera traps have uncovered across India over the last five years. April 2026 — Rusty-Spotted Cat recorded in MP   In April 2026, a camera trap in the Veerangana Durgavati Tiger Reserve captured a fleeting image of the rusty-spotted...